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Brian Darmody AURP President Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development University of Maryland
Reducing Barriers to Commercialization; Helping Universities Work with Industry:
What Can Congress Do? (And Not Spend Too Many $)
U.S. no longer home to: • largest research parks: China, Middle
East and Europe • most efficient university tech
commercialization: United Kingdom • highest per capita of technology start
ups: Israel • most generous international R&D
corporate tax credits: 17 other countries
US Universities, Industry, and Government Labs Working Together (?): Cultural Differences
Adapted from chart created by Matt Doyle of Proctor & Gamble
University Industry Government Labs
Intellectual Property (IP) Rights
Want to own IP rights
Want to own IP rights
Generally, Bayh- Dole controls
Value of IP This could be the next “Google!”
I have to invest $$$ up front
Reservation of march in rights
Public Domain “Publish or perish” If you publish we “perish” (lose)
Increasing interest in publishing
Decision Makers Very bureaucratic Very bureaucratic Very bureaucratic
Who can say no? The professor; the tech transfer office; the business office; lawyers; etc.
Business leader The program officer; the support office; the lawyers
Who can say yes? ??? Business leader Contracts or grants office/???
Value of time Lots of meetings Time is money Lots of meetings
Work Around Innovation Choke Points
1. Support research park infrastructure and the development of Communities of Innovation (S. 583)
2. Improve university technology transfer: reform the federal grant and contract university funding model to encourage commercialization in a new OMB Circular A-21.1 focused on removing choke points
3. Keep more corporate R and D in US: eliminate the test of university patent licensing in determining “private use” restrictions in facilities financed with tax exempt bonds (IRS Revenue Procedure 2007-47)
What Congress Do? (In Era of Fiscal Constraint)
4. Improve technology commercialization from federal laboratories by creating a Congressionally chartered technology intermediary foundation to improve working with industry, based on best state/university practices
5. Connect federal researchers with private companies with new Land Grant Act for federal labs
6. Ensure new federal funding initiatives don’t penalize university or state funded start ups: e.g., Qualified Therapeutic Tax Credit (QTTC) in Health Care Act
What Can Congress Do?
7. Expand the corporate R&D tax credit; give extra benefit for working with US universities
8. Reform export controls: higher controls over smaller set of technologies; modernize rules to encourage corporate/university partnerships
9. Reauthorize now the SBIR/STTR program for minimum 10 years
10. Embed entrepreneurship in federal STEM initiatives: New paradigm: ESTEEM: Encouraging Science Technology Engineering Entrepreneurship and Math
What Can Congress Do?
$1 Billion Qualified Therapeutic Tax Credit for Small Bio Technology Companies
• Wonderful Program • However Certain Companies excluded: An
applicant that is legally organized as a partnership or other type of pass-thru entity may not apply for a grant if a § 501(c) organization exempt from tax under § 501(a) is a direct or indirect partner or other holder of an equity or profit interest. Why?
Does Your University Work with Industry? You Could Lose Your Funding If You Fail to
Comply with Federal Export Controls!
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Office of Science and Technology Policy National Economic Council Commercialization of University Research Request for Information
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: In September 2009, President Obama released his national innovation strategy, which is designed to promote sustainable growth and the creation of quality jobs. Two key parts of this strategy are to increase support for both the fundamental research at our nation’s universities and the effective commercialization of promising technologies.
Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 57 / Thursday, March 25, 2010 / Notices
Building An Innovation Coalition
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